Editing Alexandria Troas (section)

===Hellenistic===
According to [[Strabo]], this site was first called Sigia (Σιγία);<ref name="Freely"/><ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-grc1:13.1.47 Strabo, Geography, 13.47]</ref> around 306&nbsp;BC [[Antigonus I Monophthalmus|Antigonus]] refounded the city as the much-expanded Antigonia Troas by settling the people of five other towns in Sigia,<ref name="Lendering">Jona Lendering (2006). [https://www.livius.org/aj-al/alexandria/alexandria_troas.html Alexandria in Troas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030131818/http://www.livius.org/aj-al/alexandria/alexandria_troas.html |date=2013-10-30 }} (from Livius.org). Retrieved 2010-4-15.</ref> including the once influential city of [[Neandreia]].<ref name="Jewett">Robert Jewett (2005). [http://www.philipharland.com/travel/TravelJewettTroas.pdf The Troas Project: Investigating Maritime and Land Routes to Clarify the Role of Alexandria Troas in Commerce and Religion.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719014702/http://www.philipharland.com/travel/TravelJewettTroas.pdf |date=2011-07-19 }} Retrieved 2010-4-15.</ref> It did not receive its name until its name was changed by [[Lysimachus]] to Alexandria Troas, in 301 BC, in memory of [[Alexander the Great]] [[Macedon|of Macedon]] ([[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]] merely states that the name changed from Antigonia to Alexandria<ref>[[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]], ''Naturalis Historia'' 5:124.</ref>). The city continued being called Alexandria Troas, as is stated in the 4th-5th c. AD [[Tabula Peutingeriana]]. As the chief port of north-west Asia Minor, the place prospered greatly in Roman times, becoming a "free and autonomous city" as early as 188&nbsp;BC,<ref name="Lendering"/> and the existing remains sufficiently attest its former importance. In its heyday the city may have had a population of about 100,000.<ref name="Jewett"/> [[Strabo]] mentions that a [[Roman Empire|Roman]] [[Colonia (Roman)|colony]] was created at the location in the reign of [[Augustus]], named Colonia Alexandria Augusta Troas (called simply Troas during this period). Augustus, [[Hadrian]] and the rich grammarian [[Herodes Atticus]] contributed greatly to its embellishment; the aqueduct still preserved is due to the latter. [[Julius Caesar]] and [[Constantine I|Constantine]] considered making Troas the capital of the [[Roman Empire]].<ref>{{cite CE1913|wstitle=Troas|first=Siméon|last=Vailhé|volume=15}}</ref>